FOUR members of a gang who bought gold bars with the proceeds of their drug dealing have been jailed for a total of more than 11 years.
Police had kept the six-strong gang under surveillance for 18 months after learning some of them were dealing Class A and B drugs throughout Crewe.
Officers then followed members to Birmingham's jewellery quarter where they bought gold bars for cash earned through dealing illegal drugs.
The gang was laundering between £7,000 and £14,000 a time by buying fine gold ingots with their drugs cash.
Police arrested three of the gang members, Bobby Palin, Andrew Arrowsmith and Shane Arrowsmith, on the M6 in April last year on their way back from Birmingham. And the next day police caught another gang member, Carl Arrowsmith, back in the jewellery quarter with four gold bars valued at £27,650.
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